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WMNST 106N Midtermmyths of feminism - ANS--anti-men --> feel good about yourself
-feminists are ugly --> no one wants to be ugly
-things are fine the way they are --> more problems (feminism isnt dead)
-for old white ladies --> for everyone
-feminism is over rated --> people need it and vote on it
feminism - ANS-movement on the belief of social, political, and economic equality of the
sexes
feminist art - ANS--by women and shows a woman's perspective of life
western art cannon - ANS--what we judge ad measure new artists by
-women and people of color were left out of canon
-woman's art was crafty and dismissed as high art
patriarchal dominated learning system - ANS--male centered society
-everything from a male's perspective
-ex: no women or women of color in learning system
what women artists are trying to convey - ANS--what it is life being treated like a
woman, sex organs, and sex
c*** art - ANS-women reclaiming their sexuality and their bodies as a symbol of strength
and identity
feminine techniques in art - ANS--sewing
-collages
-tapestry
-photo montage
-blood
frida kahlo - ANS--mestiza
-blood (birth is dangerous)
-masculine --> cut hair and men's clothes
-gender fluidity
-was in an accident --> no kids --> hurt marriage
-showed that the rigid structure of genders in society isnt there
, louise bourgoue - ANS--paintings and sculptures
-female house --> house and woman as one; body trapped in house; roles of being in
the house and the sexual parts of a woman
-spiraled couple --> twisted existence; being transformed into something else
-spider --> scary but fragile; eggs of marble; nurturing; rebuilds web when it gets torn
dow (role of a woman)
-dad and nanny affair
rachel lachoits - ANS--makes sculptures out of make up
-recreates men's work out of make up
-fighting back the art canon
-reappropriation
-see beyond the body and gender
appropriation - ANS--taking someone's culture and making it your own
-rachel lachoits
reappropriation - ANS-taking the culture back because you never got a chance to have
it in the first place
hypercorporeal - ANS-corporations
hypermaterial - ANS-materials
reconstruction era - ANS--after civil war
-get blacks adjusted after slavery
-physically: fix what was broken
-societal: affect economy; slaves had nothing
-whites affected voting and taxes to keep blacks in the poor
ruffneck - ANS--anyone outside of the norm or mainstream
-queer, freak, outcast
Kara Walker - ANS--violent; sexual; fantasy
-gives tension
-instillations
-sculpture (sugar babies)
-emphasizes features of people
-sexualization of black women
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